Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WHEN a carload of IRON was opened at
Danbury, the OF er day, big black dog was
found almost dead He had been in the car
ten days without food. water. or any prutec-
ton from the zero weather. He has been
cared for and VIII live.
CORNELL STUDENT wrote a burlesque in a
lOc novel, calling it "Hidebrand the Horri-
be, or the Haunted Ptg-sty," and st nj 1t to a
sensational publisher as rebuke. He was
thanked and paid for bis contrlbut and re
quested 10 furnish second story,
ONE Il the curious condolences OF nOmen-
clature is that the daughter Of Gen. Logan
married Mr.. Tucker. while the daughter of
Repres, ative Randolph Tucker married Il
MIR. Logan. Each couple have son. Tie
name OF one is Tucker Logan and the other IS
Logan Tucker,
THIS is the quick way they recruit their
army in Mexico: "A colonel being short of
men sent fifty TROOPERS into a sonora town.
and they ran down thirty or forty citizens,
locked them up on bogus charge of drunk
enness and had them sentenced to serve in
the army for one year. All this took leso than
halt day."
ALFRED TENNYsoN has been England's
poet laureate since $50 longer period than
the honor was held by any of his predeces -ors.
Coley Cibber enjoyed the siinctiun fr N
1880 TO 1857, aud K bert SOuThey from 1918 to
ls49; all the others, from Edmund Spenser
uo"n LOT muCn shorter terms.
NEAR the exit door of the coin cabinet in
the Philadelphia mint Is agnifcent Ameri-
can eagle, superbly mounted. Its portrait
can be recognized on the diverse of the first
nickel cent pieces comet in 1857. The eagle
was called Pc e. and lived III the mint for SIX
years. He would fly about the city every
day, returning before the time for closing
the mint. He was known "a the "m nj Bird
and was never moles ed. He was killed by
nQyh Z IN ha Hxt haal Of fa INN
TIE Queen had a concert in the drawing
room at Osborne on Satur lay evening, and i
observe that the programme did not contain
a single British or Irish piece. and at SINH
lar concert Which was given about a fortnlgh ut
ago at Windsor Castle, the programme was
also restricted To the works of French, Ger
man and italian composers. The Prince Of
" a. es feyerlsh activity on behalf of the
Royal College of Music does not appear to be
much encouraged by the Queen, VINO certain
ly does nothing tosttmu ate naive talent; for
whenever concert is given the programme
ls ALWAYS submitted to her Mqjesty, so that
the almost invariahle exclusion OF home"
music Is not due to any prejudiCes on the part
of the conductor. The Queen and Princess
Beatrice are fond of music, but they are by
no means good judges, nor have they been
blessed with line taste,
THE bill recently introduced in the House
by Mr.. Mhliken to purchase all the property
view of erecting thereon public buildings is
chimerioal. One would have TO waituntil all
the Randalls and HOlmans have ceased to cN-
lat to get II even Goa BldereG, The cost to the
government OF acquiring this properly would
prObantY he $1,000 900. TO t,uV gnB who has
seen Paris transformed by Haussman STA
millions, or even twice that amount, would
not seem too much to pay for sItah street as
Pennsylvania avenue would he If fined on one
side BY row O, stately buildings. new In
terror Department, Il Post ONCE DepdrtrnenT
or Hall OF r cords, a building the need OF
which becomes yearly more apparent. AIR.
Mllliken's project however, viii have to rest
until the millennium Is upon us.
ATELLER Of a suburban bank, who has to
make use of the horse cars going to and from
his place of business, and who prefers an airy
outside berth on the from platform t. a seat
and the sitting atmo phere of the Sn5itfe OF
the car, was enjoying his daily trip ths Itter
morning and engaged in conversation WI h
the driver. The talk finally drifteIt 10 the
hours demanded by their respeekiYe eallings
what are your hOurs?" asked the driver
addressing the manipulStor OF The patioual
currency. From 10 TO g. wis the reply
"rhundern' came the emphatic comment
~ gu must have q hard master 10 make you
crowd big days work into ayesheuIa. Why,
my company gives me fourteen hours in
which Co do mine" Confronted by such con-
vIncing log G Is this. pessImism crawls into
its hole and draws the hole in after it.
contributor says that the old church in Tor
riugton had pew for "nigger men" and
another for "colored ladies'" Also thigh
pew for gentlemen visitors" and one for
''bachelors' and "oid maids" respectively
Stranger still at ia claimed that the last
named were occupied on SUNDAYS, although
the fact tnat these pews were opposite each
other and gave the ma DIS and bachelors OBJ
purtunity to gaze at each other during ssr-
vice time may hsveleut = charm 70 the priv
lie yes of the sittings. thus goes ahead of New
Hartford's Old church. which had one new sci
apart for the widows, one. for the deQrons
and one in the gallery for Indians. We should
be sorry 10 suspect that the Torrington hlsto-
Ran TOmapces where acts are scarce but,
although We nave dipped into ancient history
q little ourselves, the 'old maids pew" rather
sraggers our credulity.
CHARLES II. MANN doorkeeper in charge
OF the Journalists Gallery OF the House of
Representatives, during the past summer ad-
dressed letters to the editor in chief of each
of the great daihes of the Union asking a
framed portrait Of himself TO be placed among
representative Journalists in The anteroom Of
The gallery. Among those received was
cravon OF George w chi ds IN q beautifully
carved OAK frame: also a similar one Of
q gorge Jones. OF the New CTk Times. The
portraits are OF sizes propOrtionate to frame
Two By three feet. PORTRAITS have also been
received from. or have been promised by Mr.
ciHgerly, Philadelphia Record; Mr.. Nixon,
Chicago lnter-Ocean; A. ;. Abel, Baltimore
sun. John Il Mclean, Cincinnati Enquirer:
} seph Pulitzer, New York World; Murat
liza eEd. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette:
Mr. Pa 81 er, Boston Herald, ANA others. II
Is proposed to make Ills gallery the most
COMP / and Interesting collection of the
Kind n the United States
UNCLE RUFUS HATCH. chatting about the
dogs and cats 10 Wall street. tells some stories
which show that the stock brokers' of fifty
years ago were just the same Kind of "boys"
As those who flourish in that great money
centre to-day. He recalls how an organ
grin.itr as passing the board room one dav
with monkey. tie 81 pped 10 front OF the
window and began TO grind one of his tunes
The monkey jumped into the window. a D., d
Edward Prince. festive member II the
board. gave the animal a stock book, which
the monkey put under his arm, just as bro.
ker would do, The brokers' were nightly
key. James BECKER, dlgnlfied old gen le-
called for order, but the boys didn't come TO
order worth a cent. Then he called again
and said If they q dn't come 60 order imm
dlately, he would resign. The BOYS dldnt
mind him. and At last Mr.. Seeker exclaimed:
Gentlemen. have res gned" "All right"
said Prince, ~ nom nate the monkey for your
place" The monkey was unanimously
elected.
FROM the Paris Temps, under the sigma
ture of II ne Franchise au Tonkin." this will
interest womAnkind: THE women here are,
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